Maryn McKenna explained

Maryn McKenna
Occupation:author, journalist
Years Active:since 1985

Maryn McKenna is an American author and journalist. She has written for Nature, National Geographic, and Scientific American, and spoke on antibiotics at TED 2015.[1]

Fellowships

In 2009, McKenna received a Dart Center Ochberg Fellowship from The Journalism School at Columbia University.[2] In 2012, she was awarded an Ethics & Justice Investigative Journalism Fellowship at The Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University.[3] In 2013, she joined the Knight Science Journalism program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to work on a Fellowship.[4]

Writing

McKenna has written for Nature,[5] Scientific American, Wired and the National Geographic,[3] and has been a staff reporter for The Cincinnati Enquirer, the Boston Herald and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.[6]

Her book Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service is about the Epidemic Intelligence Service of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.[7] Her book Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA is about methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus;[8] a review on the CDC website called it "an extensively researched and detailed review".[9]

Her article "Imagining the Post-Antibiotics Future" is included in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014.[10]

Bibliography

Recognition

McKenna received a Byron H. Waksman Award for Excellence in the Public Communication of Life Sciences in 2013, and a Leadership Award from the Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics in 2014.[13]

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://www.ted.com/talks/maryn_mckenna_what_do_we_do_when_antibiotics_don_t_work_any_more?language=en#t-5832 Maryn McKenna: What do we do when antibiotics don’t work any more?
  2. Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism Announces 2009 Dart Center Ochberg Fellows. The Journalism School, Columbia University. August 25, 2009. Oh, Clare. 19 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20121222005823/http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/system/documents/330/original/Ochberg.pdf. 22 December 2012. dead.
  3. News: Ethics & Justice Investigative Journalism Fellowships. 19 March 2016. Brandeis University: The Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism.
  4. Web site: The End of the Antibiotic Era? A Talk with KSJ Alum Maryn McKenna. Roush, Wade. January 7, 2015. Knight Science Journalism MIT. 19 March 2016.
  5. News: McKenna. Maryn. Antibiotic resistance: The last resort. 19 March 2016. Nature International Weekly Journal of Science. July 24, 2013.
  6. Web site: About Maryn McKenna. Poynter. 19 March 2016.
  7. Web site: EIS and Epidemiology in the Spotlight. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 19 March 2016.
  8. Web site: MRSA: The Drug-Resistant 'Superbug' That Won't Die. Gross, Terry. March 23, 2010. NPR. 19 March 2016.
  9. Steinberg. James P.. 31013698. Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 16. 10. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. October 2010. 1653–1654. 10.3201/eid1610.101108. 19 March 2016. free. 3294413.
  10. Book: Deborah Blum

    . The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014. Blum, Deborah . etal . Deborah Blum. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2014. 9780544003422 . 891768394.

  11. Online version is titled "In the fight against infectious disease, social changes are the new medicine".
  12. Quote: "What might prevent or lessen [the] possibility [of a virus emerging and finding a favorable human host] is more prosperity more equally distributed – enough that villagers in South Asia need not trap and sell bats to supplement their incomes and that low-wage workers in the U.S. need not go to work while ill because they have no sick leave.", p.54
  13. Web site: Maryn McKenna. Milken Institute. 19 March 2016.

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